UW-M News & Notes, No. 46, Summer '96

On August 12th, 1996 the African Studies Program will
move out of its old home in Van Hise Hall and join
other area studies programs in new quarters within
the International Institute in Ingraham Hall (formerly
Commerce). Much of the west wing of the second floor
of Ingraham, facing Observatory Drive, opposite the
Social Science Building and bell tower, is being remodeled
for use by the area studies program. African Studies
Program staff is generally pleased with the prospect
of the move. Proximity to other area studies programs
will be one advantage. Distance form the despised
Van Hise Hall elevators will be another. Several of
us are thrilled with the prospect of a better ventilated
building than Van Hise, and windows that can be opened
in the summer. Regrets? Visitors may miss the 14th-floor
lake views. Mainly though we will be sad to be seeing
less of our friends in the Department of African Languages
and Literature, which for the past year or so has shared
the 14th floor with us.

Our new address will be 205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory
Drive, Madison, WI 53716. The suite in 205 Ingraham
will include a reception area and two interior offices,
one occupied by the director and the other by the associate
director. The adjacent, connected suite (204) will
be technically shared with South Asian Studies, though
occupied mainly by us for now. Its reception area
will house our Outreach staff and IMC (a.k.a. library),
and the two interior offices will be for the African
Studies Program assistant director and for the African
Studies and South Asian publications programs.

We will be taking a much reduced Outreach library with
us to Ingraham. The collection has been pared to dispense
with some embarrassingly obsolete materials - the sorts
of things that may have historical value in a research
library but which have no place in a collection geared
to use by K-12 curriculum planners. As the library
in recent years has been seldom used by teachers (the
on-campus parking problem is one explanation for that),
our intent has been to preserve a working collection
of books, slides, and other materials that will be
used primarily by our won Outreach staff, as they assist
teachers who have called in for help, and as they prepare
for their own visits to local classrooms and community
groups. This approach will allow us to cut wasteful
spending on hourly staff, formerly required to keep
an empty facility open. Teachers and other community
members who wish to use the materials may still do
so on request, but as the library has not truly served
as a well-used community resource it will no longer
be billed as one.

We consider the move to Ingraham and closer connections
with sister area studies programs in the International
Institute to be a good thing. African Languages &
Literature in the Madison African Studies community
are urged to visit us in Ingraham after mid-August.
If we are not enough to pull you in, the new "international"
cafeteria also being constructed in Ingraham possibly
will draw you into our lair.

SYMPOSIUM BRINGS WEST AFRICAN THEATER TO MADISON The
African Studies Spring symposium, "Politics of
Performance: Contemporary African Theater" took
place May 3-4 in the Fredric March Play Circle, Memorial
Union. Professor Judith Miller, French & Italian,
UW-Madison coordinated the symposium and directed the
play. The farce La ParenthE8se
de Sang by Sony Labou-Tansi of The Republic of Congo
was prepared for performance in her course, French
595.

Judith Miller opened the symposium with a welcoming
address describing the satire. Presenters and panelists
included John Conteh-Morgan, Ohio State University,
"The Politics of Francophone Drama in Africa.";
Magdalena Hauner, Department of African Languages &
Literature, UW-Madison, "Gender in Swahili Drama";
Msosa Mwale, University of Malawi, "Against 1Tradition':
Mentors, Apprentices and the Identity of Master Dancer
in Likhuba Dance among the Sena of Southern Malawi";
Catherine M. Cole, Theater Department, Florida State
University, "Improvising in Life and on Stage
in Ghanaian Traveling Theater"; Nathan Kwame Braun,
Film Studies, Columbia College, "1Ohia Ma Adwennwen':
How We Thought on Our Feet"; Sarah von Fremd,
National-Louis University, "AIDS Politics and
Performance in Uganda"; Joy Wrolson, Department
of African Languages & Literature, UW-Madison,
"Inongova Njakenjake: The Abjectification of Female
Bodies"; Margaret Thompson Drewal, Department
of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, "Popular
Yoruba Theater in Nigeria." The day concluded
with a catered but authentic African Dinner at the
Beefeaters Room of the Memorial Union, highlighted
by a presentation by Harold Scheub, Department of African
Languages & Literature.

SENEGAL/UW EXCHANGE CONTINUES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The University Affiliations Program between University
of Wisconsin and UniversitE9 de Saint Louis continues
to flourish. The African Studies
Program hosted the first woman faculty member, Fatou
Ly Diop, Sociology, Universit E9 de Saint Louis who
spent four weeks on campus in June.

Three other UniversitE9 de Saint Louis professors will
visit the UW campus this summer and fall: Dean Ndiawar
Sarr, Abdoulaye Barry, English, Ibrahim BE2, Law, Political
Science. UW faculty members who participated in the
program at the UniversitE9 Saint Louis in Senegal this
spring are Judith Miller, French, Stanlie James, Afro-American
and Women's Studies, and JoEllen Fair, Journalism.
They presented class lectures at the UniversitE9 Saint
Louis as well as lectures at West African Research
Association (WARA) in Dakar. They also attended the
Conference on Civil Society in Senegal at the UniversitE9
de Saint Louis in June where
they exchanged ideas with Law professors El Hadj Mbodj
and Moussa Samb, former Fulbright visitors to African
Studies Program.

VISITING PROFESSORS ENRICH AFRICANIST COMMUNITY ON
CAMPUS

Farida Hellal, professor of American literature, English
Department, Foreign Language Department, University
of Algiers is a visiting Fulbright professor at the
UW-Madison for nine months. She received her Master's
and doctorate from University of Houston and holds
a Masters from University of Bordeaux. Her research
interests are cultural and comparative literature.
During her stay in Madison she is researching the theory
of Afro-American literature. She will present a Sandwich
Seminar in fall on "Study of Identity inLala Seebbar's
Sherazad." Between."

Fatou Li Diop, Sociology, UniversitE9 de St. Louis,
Senegal, spent four
weeks on campus in May/June. She presented a lecture
in the Introduction to Africa course on family and
gender in Senegal. Her research is on the sociology
of the family and gender issues in Senegal. She received
her doctorate from the University of Lyon II, France.
Her dissertation was on the "Women and Population
in Senegal: A Study of the Acceptability of Modern
Family Planning, Representations and Determinants of
the Birth Rate in Rural Areas." Professor Diop
will participate in the University of Laval conference
"La Recherche FE9ministe dans la Francophonie--Etat
de la Situation et Pistes de Collaboration" in
September.

Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq, professor of English, Yarmouk
University, Irbid, Jordan, is a Fulbright researcher
affiliated with the UW-Madison during the summer. His
research concerns Muslim learners of English who attend
USA language schools/centres and their experience as
learners, especially through culture. Dr. Fawwaz is
a 1985 graduate in Linguistics from UW-Madison. Magdalena
Hauner, African Languages & Literature, co-supervised
his dissertation in language planning.

NEW COURSE IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

African Studies is supporting a new course, Law and
African Development, scheduled for fall 1996 in Law
and Business Schools. The seminar is for law students,
business school students, students in area studies
and others interested in economic development. Professor
Beverly Moran, Law, organized the course which will
be listed under Law 940 and General Business 365

AFRICAN 302/303
by Maria d. Olson, Journalism

UW-Madison students planning to do research or work
in Africa can find help in connecting with people from
their country of interest with two new language courses
offered this year by the African Languages and Literature
department.

The courses, "Orientation to Language Self Instruction"
and "Monitored Introduction to an African Language,"
guide students down the path of learning a language
on their own. Knowing a local language can help students
understand a culture much more deeply than if they
simply know the language of a country's former colonizer,
according to African Languages and Literature professor
Patrick Bennett who is teaching the courses this year.

"You can get by with English or French, but just
barely," Bennett said. "And you're missing
more than you think."

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The courses, African 302 and 303, are worth a total
of three credits. The

government grant, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS),
will cover languages studied in 302 and 303 upon special
request and approval. The detailed course syllabi
require students, among other things, to set oral and
written language goals for themselves, to locate appropriate
course materials, to analyze and practice grammar,
to compile a set of vocabulary and a
thesaurus.

Languages which are good candidates as fields of study
include those which have a written grammar, have been
recorded in texts or on tape, and which are spoken
by someone in Madison, Bennett said. Students whohave
enrolled in African 302 and 303 have studied languages
including Malagasy, spoken on the island nation of
Madagascar, and Kirundi, spoken in Rwanda and Burundi.

An example of a language which would probably be not
appropriate to study is Yaaku, which is spoken by a
small ethnic group in central Kenya, Bennett said.
"If you wanted to learn Yaaku, African Languages
&

Literature we have is a small vocal collection recorded
a long time ago in the 70s and some notes," Bennett
said. "There is no good grammar and no speaker
of Yaaku on campus. There just isn't enough material."

Students who wish to enroll for the courses are most
likely to succeed if they have already studied a language,
particularly an African one, and if they are highly
motivated, Bennett said.

"When we're doing this, I try to give the necessary
skills and help problem solve," he said. "If
you are a person who needs someone standing over their
shoulder and every day have them ask, 'Are you doing
your work?' this isn't for you," Bennett said.

Southern Africa Delegation Attend Land Tenure Center
Seminar Ten Southern African participants of the UW
Land Tenure Center Seminar on Land Reform Policy and
Implementation for South Africa were guests at a reception
on June 12 hosted by the African Studies Program and
the Land Tenure Center. Honored guests were Mr. Phumelelo
Booysen, Fieldworker, Southern Cape Land Committee,
George, Mr. Sithembiso Gumbi, Head of the Labour Tenancy
Unit, Association for Rural Advancement, Pietermaritzburg,
Mr. Tebogo Makgobola, Director of the Land Rights and
Advocacy Program, National Land Committee, Johannesburg,
Ms. Botshelo Mathuba, Deputy Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Local Government, Land and Housing, Gaborone,
Botswana, Mr. Star Motswege, Deputy Director of Land
Affairs in Mpumalanga Province, Ms. Margot Pienaar,
Deputy Director of Tenure Reform, Department of Land
Affairs, Pretoria, Mr. Mdu Shabane, Provincial Deputy
Director of the Department of Land Affairs, KwaZulu/Natal
Office, Pietermaritzburg, Mr. Henk Smith, Head of
the Land, Housing, and Development Unit, Legal Resources
Centre, Cape Town, Mr. A. S. West, Chief Deeds Training
Officer, Department of Land Affairs, Pretoria, Mr.
Ashley Westaway, Researcher, Surplus People Project,
Athlone.

Botshelo Mathuba, facilitator of the group, presented
a public lecture on June 28 titled "Deputy permanent
secretary, ministry of local government, land and housing
in the City of Gaborone, Botswana."

The Seminar was funded by the Ford Foundation. John
Bruce, Land Tenure Center and Forestry, coordinated
the six-week seminar.

President of Botswana Visits Madison President Quett
Ketumile Masire, who had delivered the commencement
address at Carleton College, Minnesota, visited Madison
where he was welcomed by government and business communities.
Governor Tommy Thompson held a reception at the Governor's
Mansion for President Masire on Sunday, June 9. Crawford
Young who attended the reception indicated that Masire
visited Madison to encourage investors for Botswana.
International business and state communities were represented
at the reception. Professor Richard Ralston represented
the African Studies Program a breakfast held at Grainger
Hall in honor of President Masire. 0C

UPCOMING EVENTS

International Career Day International Career Day 1996:
101 Ways to Work, Study and Travel around the Globe
will be held November 21-22, 1996 at the Memorial Union.
Medea Benjamin, Director of Global Exchange will be
the keynote speaker on Thursday, November 21. On Friday,
November 22, there will be panel discussions on international
careers in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, South
East Asia, Former Soviet Union. Students will have
opportunities for individual or small-group interviews
with speakers and panelists and may participate in
informal discussions groups led by grad students and
staff. The two-day event will terminate with a multi-ethnic
cultural program which will be open to the public.

South Africa, 1963: a nation polarized by apartheid
and dehumanized by police state terror. When idealistic
journalist Diana Roth (Barbara Hershey) defies the
government, she is arrested under the infamous Ninety-Day
Detention Act. Thrown into solitary confinement, Diana
is A World Apart from home, friends...and her lonely
young daughter, who is struggling to grow up in a land
convulsed by hate and injustice. The script is by Shawn
Slovo, daughter of Ruth First, who was assassinated
in Mozambique in 1982, and Joe Slovo, the only white
member of the National Executive of the ANC, who became"Public
Enemy Number One" in South Africa (he later became
a member of Nelson Mandela's first cabinet in 1994,
and died last year).

After three decades of independence and a quarter century
under the rule of Mobutu, what will Zaire's future
be? Zaire: The Cycle of the Serpent spends five weeks
in Kinshasa, chronicling life in the capital city and
revealing the disparities in its social fabric. Recorded
are bourgeois traders and religious and military figures;
but also beggars, transients, and social outcasts.
The serpent represents the security force and those
who collaborated with it to impose and maintain the
dictatorship. The serpent will try to clamp down again
and again until people revolt and speak again of liberty
and democracy.

The second feature film of Flora Gomes, the foremost
filmmaker in Guinea-Bissau, portrays the disillusionment
of the generation that endured the painful fight for
independence. Amid the recurrent motif of power outages,
the visions of two generations clash: the older reluctant
to abandon old dreams, and the younger, which has grown
up since liberation, with heads full of dreams of fashion,
music, and European affluence. These themes are played
out through the frustrated affections of the main characters
as they struggle to survive in a corrupt world which
offers few choices. Emerging from the tragi-comic tone
and candid view of life in the capital city of Bissau,
there is a glimmer of hope for the future.

Twenty years after his provocative masterpiece, Touki
Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambety has produced his second
feature length film, Hyenas. Borrowing from Frederich
DFCrrenmatt's celebrated play, The Visit, Mambety adapts
a
timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire
of Africa today in which the hopes of independence
have been betrayed for the false promises of consumerism.
The action revolves around the shattered ideals of
a young woman who has been wronged by her lover and
ostracized by her village only to make a triumphant
return several years later and exact her devastating
revenge. Mambety creates a stylized, fabular world
structured around an implacable logic, the logic of
the marketplace, the "reign of the hyena."

Open to the Public Free of Charge

Sponsored by the UW African Studies Program,
with support from the U.S. Department of Education

CLEARINGHOUSE FOR AFRICAN PERFORMANCES CREATED BY AFRICAN
STUDIES PROGRAM
Robert Newton, African Languages & Literature

The African Studies Program has recently undertaken
the task of creating an African Performance Clearinghouse.
The impetus for the clearinghouse follows in the wake
of an apparent and expressed need for coordination
of information about potential and current appearances
or tours by African performers. The function will
be to collect, process, and dispense meaningful information
to appropriate sources concerning finalized and potential
tours of African artists coming to North America.
The ultimate goal is not merely to disseminate information
but also to create conditions which would encourage
more performances and wider audiences. Outside of
major metropolitan centers, and beyond the small list
of major professional touring troupes, the general
lack of a broader audience for African performers is
largely due to a lack of awareness. What is required
is connecting potential performers with potential sponsors
so that both can act accordingly with enough lead time
to set up tours and to organize and publicize events
in campus communities across the country. This requires
the active involvement of programs related to African
Studies to bring in a wider variety of performances
to a broader, more diffuse, and regionally-dispersed
public.

The initial task of the clearing house is to identify
and compile a list of African performers who are interested
in performing in the United States and a list of specific
organizations and contacts within those organizations
for

promoting, sponsoring, or publicizing tours by these
artists. It will then process this information by
cross- listing it according to pertinent categories
and provide access to this information for those interested.
It will also take an active role by noting the requests
for performances by the individuals and organizations
who are potential sponsors and notifying them of particular
kinds of performances in which they have expressed
an interest.

This program will be administered by the African Studies
Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
function as a project to initiate and maintain such
a clearinghouse for African performance on campuses
throughout the United States. The work will be done
by Bob Newton, the project coordinator, in conjunction
with other information, communication, and programming
projects in the African Studies Program. He can be
reached at African Studies Outreach 263-2171 or at
home 251-1072.

AWARDS FOR AFRICANISTS IN UPPER MIDWEST REGION Scholars'
Access Grants -Africa The Scholars' Access Grant Program,
sponsored by the African Studies Program, supports
Upper Midwest Africanist faculty to do research at
the library facilities at the UW-Madison. Recipients
of the 1995-96 awards are: Bartholomew Armah, Africology,
UW-Milwaukee, "Trade Liberalization and Economic
Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1950-1988"; Kiptalai
S. Elolia, Religion, St. Norbert College, "Christianity
and African Religions in Kenya: An Encounter between
the Africa Inland Mission and the Marakwet Belief Systems
and Culture"; and Charles W. Weber, History, Wheaton
College, and Richard V. Pierard, History, Indiana State
University, "The Christian Community's Role in
the Evolution of Political Independence in West Africa."

WIOC Scholar Access Grants WIOC (Wisconsin International
Outreach Consortium), an outreach organization combining
facilities of six federally-funded international programs
at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University,
supports College Faculty Access Grants for library
research in Madison and Milwaukee. Recipients of the
1995-96 awards are Mark Everingham, Social Change
& Development, UW-Green Bay "The Political
Economy of Property Rights and Agriculture in Central
America and East Africa"; Christine Loflin, English,
Grinnell College, Iowa, "Interconnections between
use of music in Baldwin's short story "Sonny's
Blues" and the novel To Every Birth Its Blood
by South Africa writer Mongane Serote; Martin S. Meyers,
Business & Economics, UW-Stevens Point, "International
business in the new South Africa"; Akorlie A.
Nyatepe-Coo, Economics, UW-LaCrosse, "Southeast
Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa as Contracting
Models of Economic Development"; Terry Roehrig,
History/Social Studies, " Putting the Military
on Trial: South Korea, Argentina and the Consolidation
of Democracy" and Scott M. Youngstedt, Sociology/Anthropology,
St. Norbert College, De Pere, "The Migration Era:
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of West Africa and India."

Professor Makward Encourages Membership in West African
Research Association Professor Edris Makward, President
of West African Research Association (WARA), encourages
membership in WARA It is one of a handful of U.S.
research center in sub-Saharan Africa and it is a member
of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
(CAORC). It provides students and faculty with access
to research resources and research contacts through
out West Africa. Cost of memberships for an institution
is $500, for an individual faculty, $25, and for students,
$15. Addresses: In USA: WARA, P.O. Box 742, Howard
University, Wahshington, D.C. 20059. Tel: 202/806-9325;
Fax: 202/806-4471. In Dakar: West African Research
Center (WARC)/CROA: Dr. Leigh Swigart, B.P. 6228, Dakar
Etole, SE9nE9gal. Fax: 221/22-08-48. Email: swigart@warc.warc.sn

Bert Adams, Sociology, traveled to Nairobi where he
did research and also sang in the opera Don Giovani
in March.

John W. Bruce, Forestry and Land Tenure Center, directed
the four week "Seminar on Land Reform Policy and
Implementation for South Africa" funded by the
Ford Foundation.

Michael Carter, Agricultural Economics, will be traveling
to South Africa in August to continue work on rural
poverty using a national living standards survey conducted
two years ago. He will be working with Julian May
of Data Research Africa, Dori Posel of the Univ Natal-Durban
and with the Land and Agricultural Policy Center in
Joberg. With support from the Ford Foundation, they
are finishing up series of papers which examine the
various dimensions of poverty and evaluating land reform
and other policies which might help ameliorate it.
Driss Cherkaoui, African Languages & Literature,
has ended his term as lecturer of Arabic and will continue
writing his dissertation.

Dustin Cowell, African Languages & Literature, returns
in August from a two-year sabbatical in Malaysia where
he taught Arabic at the International Institute of
Islamic Thought and Civilization in Kuala Lumpur.

Jo Ellen Fair, Journalism, tenured spring 1996, received
a grant from the National Consortium for Study in Africa
to develop an exchange program tailored for American
journalism students at the University of Namibia.

Stanlie James, Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies,
convened a workshop on May 3-4 entitled "Curriculum
Transformation: Feminist Perspectives on Human Rights
and International Relations" the first in a series
of Ford Foundation supported workshops on Internationalizing
Women's Studies. Professor James has been named Interim
Director of the Women's Studies Research Center for
the 1996-97 academic year.

Herbert Lewis, Anthropology, was granted emeritus status
upon his retirement by Chancellor David Ward.

Beverly Moran, Law, received a Fulbright to teach in
Eritrea from September to May. She will teach contracts
and commercial law for one year at the University of
Asmara Law Faculty where she will help obtain the Law
School accreditation. She will also teach at the Ethiopian
Civil Service College from June-August 1997.

Richard Ralston, Afro-American Studies, presented "Africa:
Should the U.S. Care?" at the Great Decisions
Lecture Series on International Affairs on March 20
at the Wisconsin Center.

Antonia Schleicher, African Languages & Literature,
received a Mellon Fellowship to research curriculum
development for African languages at the National Foreign
Language Center, D.C. She traveled to Hawaii in July
to give a presentation at the National Foreign Language
Resource Center symposium on less commonly taught languages
and technology. She represented her department at
the CIC conference on Technology and Foreign Languages
at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. In June
she spent a month at the National Foreign Language
Center at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
as a Mellon Fellow to work on developing "A Goal
Driven Curriculum for African Languages". She
received a Fellowship from L & S, International
Studies, and the National Foreign Language Resource
Center to present a paper at the University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, July 1996. The topic of the paper is "Conversion
of a Teacher-Delivered Course into an Interactive Multimedia
CD-ROM Tutorial".

Gay Seidman, Sociology, was awarded tenure this year.
Professor Seidman has been appointed the new director
of the Global Studies Research Program. Her research
on democratization, development and social change in
the developing world will help enhance the vision of
the Global Studies Program.

Aliko Songolo, African Languages & Literature and
French, presented a paper entitled "AimE9 Cesaire
et l'histoire du Congo/Zaire" at a colloquium
at UniversitE9 de Cergy-Pontoise, France, June 6-7.
He read a paper at the annual conference of Conseil
international des E9tudes francophones (CIEF)
in Toulouse, France, June 9-16 entitled "Lumumba
dans l'imaginaire antillais." He was appointed
Resident Director of the CIC summer program at UniversitE9
Laval in Quebec for '96 and '97.

Thomas Spear, History, published a chapter "Struggles
for the Land, The Political & Moral Economies of
Land on Mount Meru" in Custodians of the Land,
Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania edited
by Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin and Isaria N. Kimambo,
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.

Spear attended the SOAS conference "Africa's Urban
Past" in London in June where he chaired the panel
"Urban Culture in Equatorial Africa." He
also presented a paper "Town and Country: Arusha
and its Hinterland" on the panel "Village,
Town, City in Colonial Eastern Africa."

Robert Tabachnick, Curriculum & Instruction, was
granted emeritus status upon his retirement by Chancellor
David Ward.

Frieda High Tesfagiorgis, Afro American Studies, is
exhibiting her painting "Returning to the Door
of No Return" at an exhibit "Bearing Witness:
Contemporary Works by African-American Women Artists,"
at Spelman College in Atlanta from July 5 until December
31. The exhibition is part of the 1996 Cultural Olympeiad
which will coincide with this summer's Olympic games
and the National Black Arts Festival.

Aili Tripp, Political Science, and her student Jessica
Hochman, received a 1996 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty
Research Fellowship.

Crawford Young, Political Science, served as part of
a consultant team to evaluate conflict potential in
Kenya for AID in January. He continues to serve on
the International Advisory Board of the Eritrean Constitutional
Commission. Professor Young prepared a keynote paper
on accountability and transparency for the African
Development Bank annual meeting.

MEMBER OF AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM RECEIVES LIBRARY AWARD

Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Reference Librarian, has been named
one of the two 1996 Librarians of the Year by her peers
in the UW-Madison Librairans' Assembly. The award recognizes
outstanding contributions to campus library services.
She has rendered invaluable service through her dedication
to faculty and students who do research on Africa and
by her many lectures on library use skills including
web sites on Africa. She has lectured on "Publishing
in Africa, Africa on the Internet, Internet Resources
for African Americans, Women's Issues in Cameroon."
She is an editor of e-mail discussion groups fro African
literature and for the Women's Studies Executive Board
and is co-editor of the African Association of Madison
Newsletter. With the monetary part of the award she
created a fund called Books for African
Children.

Professor Harold Scheub, African Languages & Literature,
writes the following words to the awardee which express
Emilie's dedication to others: "Dear Emilie, Warmest
congratulations on the richly deserved honor. You
grace our library, your expert advice and your guidance
make a complex organization accessible to all of us,
students and faculty. "

Third member of African Studies Program Selected into
Teaching Academy at UW Antonia Schleicher, African
Languages & Literature, was selected to join the
prestigious Teaching Academy at the UW-Madison. She
becomes the third member of the Program, joining Magdalena
Hauner, African Languages &
Literature and Richard Ralston, Afro American Studies
to be invited into the Academy.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Beverly I. Moran, Law, joined the African Studies Program
this semester. She did her undergraduate work at Vassar
and received her J.D. from University of Pennsylvania
School of Law in 1981 and an LL.M. in Taxation from
New York University School of Law. She began teaching
at the UW Law School in 1991. She received the Wisconsin
Alumni Association Teacher of the Year Award in 1995
and Legal Education Opportunity Teacher of the Year
Award in 1993. She is the recipient of a faculty Professional
Development Grant from the UW Graduate School 1995-96.
She presented law lectures at the University of Addis
Ababa Law School, Ethiopia and at University of Asmara
Law School, Eritrea, January 1995.

0C Mary Lou Daniel, Spanish & Portuguese, joined
the African Studies Program in April. She did her undergraduate
and graduate work at UW-Madison and received her Ph.D.
in Portuguese in 1965. Professor Daniel taught at
University of Iowa until 1977 and at the UW-Madison
from 1977 until present. She is co-editor (with Professor
Stanley Payne, History, of Luso-Brazilian Review, published
by UW Press. Dr. Daniel teaches Lusophone African Literature
and Explicacas de Textos.

Kent Elbow, Land Tenure Center, joined the Program in
spring. He received his Masters in Urban and Regional
Planning from University of Iowa in 1987 and his Ph.D.
in Development Studies from UW-Madison in 1992. Dr.
Elbow is an associate scientist with the Land Tenure
Center where he oversees the research program on tenure
and natural resource management in Sahelian West Africa
and Guinea. He has worked in Guinea, The Gambia, Burkina
Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Cameroon.

Florence Bernault, History, joins the Department of
History in fall when she will teach history of Equatorial
Africa and a seminar in the history of Africa. She
received her Ph.D. in 1994 from UniversitE9 de Paris-VII
in African history, agrE9gE9e de l'UniversitE9. Her
dissertation title was "Ambiguous Democracies:
the Building of a Political Society in the Congo-Brazzaville
and Gabon, 1945-64." She has taught at the University
of Provence, University of Conakry, Claremont Graduate
School, University of Niamey, and most recently at
L'Ecole Normale SupE9rieur de Fontenay-St. Cloud. Her
forthcoming publication is DE9mocraties ambig es: la
construction d'une sociE9tE9 politique au Congo-Brazzaville
et au Gabon, Paris,
editions Karthala.

South African Professor Joins UW Law School Heinz Klug,
S.J.D., Law School, January 9196, will join the UW
Law School
in fall. He was a researcher for the African National
Congress of South Africa, Department of Legal and Constitutional
Affairs. Klug has served as a consultant to the South
African Minister of Land Affairs, as a team member
of the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform
and Rural Restructuring. He has published in the field
of contemporary South African constitutional law.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Freedom from Apartheid Permits Harold Scheub's New Work
to be Published Another book containing African Languages
& Literature Professor Scheub's research accumulated
during the four years that he spent walking up and
down the southeastern coast of Africa-3000 miles- will
soon be available to readers. Professor Scheub promised
the historians and artists from whom he gathered information
on the heroic struggle to keep traditional beliefs
alive during apartheid that he would not publish their
words until freedom came to South Africa--and he never
dreamed it would be in his own lifetime! He kept his
promise in order to insure the safety of these historians,
storytellers and poets from governmental reprisals.
The Tongue is Fire, subtitled, South African Story
Tellers and Apartheid will be published by University
of Wisconsin Press in November. It is a study of how
the people of rural areas in southern Africa dealt
with 350 years of racist apartheid. This publication
contains the works of twelve South African storytellers,
historians, and poets from the Xhosa, Zulu and Swati
oral traditions with analyses by Harold Scheub.

Described in Professor Scheub's own words: "It
is a work that is as significant for America in the
1990s as it is for South Africa history. As we in
this country set about, in the name of multiculturalism,
to divide ourselves into racial and ethnic groups,
as we impose a new late-twentieth-century version of
apartheid on our cities and campuses, the works of
those who have experienced the fruits of racial separation
provide caution and hope"

Afrikaners View of the World of South Africa Seen in
New Publication by
Scheub Secret Fire is the first publication of a journal
written by a South African writer, Pauline Smith, in
1913-14. It will be published in South Africa by the
University of Natal Press. In the journal, and in Scheub's
introduction and notes, one can seen the world of
South Africa from the point of view of Afrikaners,
the white Dutch-based population of South Africa.

New Shona Reader Compiled by Hazel Carter Kuverenga
Chishona, An Introductory Shona Reader with Grammatical
Sketch by Hazel Carter and G.P. Kahariis has been prepared
for students who have no previous knowledge of the
Shona language. Part I contains the Shona texts with
accompanying translation plus an introduction giving
details of the work from which the extract is taken.
It also includes a Shona-English glossary. Part II
contains a short sketch of Shona grammar and notes
to the passages, plus a selected bibliography for further
study. Set of two parts 0 7286 0133 8 costs A37.00
Two cassettes accompany the course @ A3 8.00.
For more information, please contact the Publications
Office, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H OXG. 0C
ALUMNI NEWS

Tim Longman, Political Science, Ph.D.9195, has a tenure-track
position at Vassar College beginning fall 1996. He
is currently in Rwanda working with a relief organization.

Adell Patton, History 9175, associate professor of history,
University of Missouri, St. Louis is author of a new
publication, Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora
in West Africa, University Press of Florida. ISBN O-8130-1432-8
$49.95. 0CMark W. Plane, African Languages & Literature,
received his Ph.D. in January 1996 and continues to
teach Swahili at Washington University-St.
Louis.

William Reno, Political Science, Ph.D.'92, Florida International
University, has a new publication due to appear October
1997 titled Warlord Politics and African States, Lynne
Rienner Press.

Laura Tanna, African Languages & Literature, Ph.D.
9180, Advisory Board Member of the African Caribbean
Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank, on February
15, 1996 made an oral and video presentation on the
0Ctopic "Oral Traditions: Key to Self Awareness"
at the ACIJ/JMB cultural exposition celebrating Black
History Month in collaboration with the Centre for
the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies--Mona,
Kingston, Jamaica and on March 6, 1996 presented "Institute
of Jamaica: A Fallen Giant--Should It Be Saved?"
on the panel titled "Building Cultural Institutions"
at the Conference on Caribbean Culture to honor Professor
Rex Nettleford, March 4-6, 1996, University of the
West Indies--Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. E-mail: dtanna8568@aol.dom
with cc to: dtanna@infochan.com

Michele Wagner, History 9191, has accepted a position
in the Department of History, University of Georgia
for 1996-97. She published a chapter "Environment,
Community & History, 91Nature in the Mind' in Nineteenth-
and Early Twentieth-Century Buha, Western Tanzania"
in Custodians of the Land, Ecology & Culture in
the History of Tanzania edited by Gregory Maddox, James
L. Giblin and Isaria N. Kimambo, Ohio University Press,
Athens, Ohio. 0C

STUDENT NEWS

AWARDS Congratulations to the African Studies students
on their accomplishments! >From the African Studies
Program:

Jonmi Nai On Koo, African Languages & Literature,
University Fellowship and Alice Almasy and Jane Goddard
Scholarship for outstanding undergraduates in the Humanities.

Marie KrFCger, African Languages & Literature, Vilas
Regular

Kimberly Miller, Art History, Smithsonian Summer Graduate
Fellowship to work at the National Museum of African
Art in Washington, DC, summer 1996

Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel, Political Science, Hyde Dissertation
Research Award for Graduate Studies awarded by the
Women's Studies Research Center, UW-Madison

Maria d. Olson, Journalism, U.S. Department of State
Internship in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Kim Rapp Fulbright-Hays Group Project Aborad for intensive
study of advanced Yoruba in Nigeria through University
of Florida. She will be a teaching assistant in the
fall in African Languages & Literature 201.

Sofia Samatar, African Languages & Literature, Advanced
Opportunity Fellowship; Fulbright-Hays Group Project
Aborad for intensive study of advanced Swahili this
summer in Tanzania through Yale University. She will
be a teaching assistant for Swahili I in the fall.

Olusegun Olutoye, Continuing and Vocational Education
(CAVE), May 9196, "Factors and Forces Influencing
the Adoption of New Technology: A Case Study of the
Downy Mildew Disease Resistant Maize Varieties in Ondo
State of
Nigeria."

African Studies Students Participate in 1996 African
Literature Association (ALA) "Migrating Words
and Worlds: Pan Africanism Updated" was the theme
of the 22nd Annual ALA Conference hosted by the State
University of New York at Stony Brook on March 27-30.
The following graduate students presented on a panel
chaired by Professor Aliko Songolo: Omoniyi Afolabi,
Spanish & Portuguese, "Revisiting the 91Noble
Savage': Dias Gomes' O Pagador de Promessas in Film
and Fiction"; Roberta Hatcher, French, "Writing
with the Camera in African Films"; Kim Rapp, African
Languages & Literature, "Choice or Necessity?
The Language Question in African Film".

Omoniyi Afolabi, Spanish & Portuguese, presented
"The (T)error of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison
and Cruz e Souza" in the panel titled "Expressive
Traditions" at the conference "African Diaspora:
African Origins and New World Self-Fashioning"
hosted by the Africana Studies Department, Binghamton
University on April 11-13, 1996."

Linda Beck, Political Science, begins a tenure track
position at Barnard College in September.

Andrea Frohne, Art History presented "Jean-Michel
Basquiat as Heroic Hunter: An Assertion of Identity"
in the panel titled "Expressive Traditions"
at the conference "African Diaspora: African Origins
and New World Self-Fashioning" hosted by the Africana
Studies Department, Binghamton University on April
11-13, 1996.

0CShannen Hill, Art History, is teaching Art History
in a program for
gifted students at Johns Hopkins University, summer
9196.

Jeff Kaufmann, Anthropology, is in Madagascar for one
year researching his dissertation project entitled
"Attitudes Toward Nature by Pastoralists in Madagascar's
Spiny Desert." He published " 91The Cactus
Was Our Kin': Pastoralism in Madagascar's Spiny Desert"
in Changing Nomads in a Changing World, edited by A.M.
Khazanov and J. Ginat, Sussex: Academic Press

Patricia Kuntz, Curriculum & Instruction, participated
on panel "South Africa: Lessons for the Continent"
at the 1995 ASA Teacher's workshop in Orlando. She
is a reviewer for the ASA Outreach Council Children's
Book Award Committee and Multicultural Review.

Kimberly Anne Miller, Art History, delivered a lecture
at the Elvehjem Museum of Art on March 27 entitled
"Reclaiming Our Bodies: Representations of Saartjie
Baartman in the Work of Penny Siopis, Lorna Simpson,
and Renee Green" as part of a lecture series for
Women's History Month.

0CElias Mpofu, Psychology, wrote a history manuscript
entitled "The labour history of South Africa (1806-1940)
that has been accepted for publication by SAPES (Southern
African Political and Economic Society)

Nancy Pauly, Curriculum & Instruction, prepared
curriculum materials on Namibia as a result of the
trip for teachers that she led to Namibia last summer.
Materials are available from her at 1211 Rutledge,
#2, Madison, WI 53703.

Safiya Tolson,.co-founder of Crossroads program, received
a $500 check from Professor Cornel West, Harvard University,
which will help fund the next Crossroads program in
Johannesburg, South Africa next January.

CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE The Department
of African Languages & Literature presented a "Celebration
of African Languages and Culture" on Friday, March
22, 1996 at Union South. Language skits performed by
students who study Arabic, Hausa, Swahili, Yoruba,
Kikuyu enlivened the evening. A dance featuring Africa
music by DJ, Ibrahim Lasisi topped off the event which
will become an annual event. The event is free and
open to the public. Watch for details next year and
come and join the international festivities! 0C RESEARCH
IN TANZANIA by Kathleen Smythe (Kathleen, graduate
student in History, returned in June from dissertation
research in Tanzania. She was recipient of the African
Studies Travel Award, the Wenner Gren and the Fulbright
Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
Award)

These melodic Kifipa greetings are repeated hundreds
of times throughout the morning in the village of Chala
in southwestern Tanzania. They are the password to
learning about Fipa culture. My first few months in
the village of Chala were spent immersing myself in
this language. What follows is a glimpse of the ups
and downs of my learning of Kifipa which I used as
much as possible to conduct my historical research
in the area.

Most researchers have a story of a family adopting them
and providing a crucial link to the community and I
am no exception. Before getting to Chala, eager to
become a part of the village, I had agreed, while in
the regional capitol, to carry some money to a young
woman's family (Kang'ombe) there. In Chala I was directed
to ask a woman named Verana where to find the Kang'ombe
family. I found Verana presiding over a meager selection
of used shoes in a large sitting room of a larger-than-usual
house. Verana, the 40-year-old shoe vendor, closed
up shop by shutting the door to the sitting room that
separated it from the market area, and took me to the
Kang'ombe's. When our task was complete, she invited
me to come back in the afternoon.

Mzee is very proud of his language and laments that
the young children are speaking mostly Kiswahili, the
language used in African Languages & Literature
elementary education, rather than their local language.

Grateful for something to fill my less-than-busy first
day, I returned and she, literally, took me by the
hand and introduced me to the nearby members of her
family. Her father, Mzee Kontwa (a self-given name
- Kontwa means tick in Kifipa and since his legs and
hands were disfigured by leprosy he lived a life, in
his view, similar to that of a parasitic tick) was
thrilled to meet me and we agreed almost instantaneously
that he would be my Kifipa tutor. Verana, as my devoted
companion from that day on, also played an important
role in my language acquisition.

Two weeks into my stay in Chala I walked to Kasu, a
village five miles south of Chala, with Verana. African
Languages & Literature the way she peppered me
with Kifipa words. "Ulupulika isusi? (Do you
feel cold?)", she asked. "Uh...I don't understand
what you are saying, Verana," I responded. "Do
you feel cold?" she would ask in Kiswahili. "No.
But how do you say that in Kifipa?" I enquired
in Kiswahili. "Talupulika isusi ( I don't feel
cold)," Verana answered. I tried to repeat the
phrase, badly mispronouncing it, "Ntapulikay isusi."
It was close enough for Verana so she raced on to
another phrase. " The clouds are covering the
mountains." Not only did I not have a chance
to perfect the first phrase but she wanted me to learn
words that in my opinion were not going to be very
helpful in basic communication. Talking about cloud
conditions would be nice later on but I first wanted
to be able to say that I was very thankful, not feeling
well or interested in going to a certain village to
talk with the people. Verana, however, trying to be
helpful and oblivious to the standards of U.S. formal
language training to which I was holding her, plowed
ahead.

Pointing to a small brown insect, she said its name
first in Kiswahili and the in Kifipa. I could feel
the tenuous grasp that I had on " I don't feel
cold" slipping and the word for this brown bug
filling up the brain space it had occupied. The name
for this brown bug was followed by the name of a certain
tree, then the beautiful multi-colored bird which flew
overhead. Two hours later, when we reached Kasu my
brain had temporarily filed and then removed hundreds
of Kifipa words.

In the village of Kasu I got the kind of repetitive
language exercise I needed. Verana, ever anxious to
show off to as many people as possible led me on a
circuitous route through the village. We greeted each
person, "Posuta," etc. As soon as they heard
me say one Kifipa word, they would smile broadly and
begin to hopefully "test" the limits of my
knowledge. The next two or three questions would be
greeting questions. I had heard most of them before
but still could not always match the proper response
to the proper greeting. And, if I needed more than
a second to allow the greeting to register and then
to retrieve a possible response, Verana was right by
my side: "Say tataitu kalesa" or "Say
viyo kwene." Once we entered the "body"
of conversation, I was lost. As a blank look crossed
my face the villagers would laugh and say, "Oh
she doesn't know Kifipa," as if they had assumed
from my few proper greetings that I was a native speaker.
In the eyes of the Fipa the line between "knowing"
a language and not was very thin.

Mzee Kontwa had experience learning several other languages
including Kinyakyusa, English, French, as well as bits
of Latin and Polish.

Once the painful experience of the first few months
were over, I reaped the benefits of my efforts.

We spent hours sitting on his wooden sofa topped by
two worn styrofoam cushions as I struggled to learn
Kifipa. 0C

Mzee is very proud of his language and laments that
the young children are speaking mostly Kiswahili, the
language used in African Languages & Literature
elementary education, rather than their local language.
He was very eager to teach me the true Kifipa, the
Kifipa of long ago, the Kifipa that only the old men
and women understand. He taught me the true Kifipa
word for gift - "impanyo." At his behest,
I tried this Outreach on Verana. She had never heard
of it. She, like almost everyone else in the village,
used the Kiswahili word. Mzee got a great kick out
of this. The mzungu (European) knew a word in Kifipa
that his daughter did not know. For the next week
(and intermittently for the next year) anybody who
came into the sitting room while we were having a lesson
would be instructed to ask me what "gift"
was I Kifipa. 0CLooks of wonder were encouraged and
exchanged between Mzee and the guest after I answered,
"impanyo". This sort of vocabulary, of course,
was not quite what I had in mind since I needed to
learn to speak the Kifipa of today so I could be understood
by and understand a majority of the village residents.
But I could hardly put an end to it because of the
great pleasure and pride this game brought Mzee Kontwa.
It was a small price to pay for his willing and eager
tutoring.

Mzee took his language teaching very seriously and one
of my favorite memories is of him starting one of our
early lessons by saying that it was absolutely VITAL
that I learn African Languages & Literature of
the body parts in Kifipa - African Languages &
Literature of them! 0CWe had reached the groin area
when his wife, Mama Anna, walked in and reprimanded
him for such impropriety. Without hesitation, Mzee
Kontwa countermanded that contrary to her opinion it
was absolutely necessary that if I were to go back
to the United States and proclaim I knew Kifipa I would
need to know all of it not just the socially acceptable
terms! Who could ask for a better language tutor?

Once the painful experience of the first few months
were over, I reaped the benefits of my efforts. To
say that folks were delighted with my attempts at their
local language would be an understatement. They loved
calling me a fellow Mfipa and got a real thrill greeting
me in their language. I am convinced that my efforts
made my research much easier than it would have been
without knowledge of Kifipa. And in contrast to the
negative evaluations of Fipa fluency early on, I quickly
moved right up to Kifipa fluency in the eyes of the
residents. Within months, my efforts were rewarded
by being described as the mzungu who speaks Kifipa
fluently. That this was a bold overstatement of my
abilities mattered little to anyone and was many times
just the ego boost I needed. I never became fluent
in Kifipa but will never forget how patient and forgiving
the people of Chala were with my attempts to learn
their language. 0C

John Peck, Land Resources, IES, UW-Madison, " Wildlife,
Woodlands, and Water: Community Management of Common
Property in Zimbabwe"

Botshelo Mathuba, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry
of Local Government, Land and Housing, Botswana. "Deputy
permanent secretary, ministry of local government,
land and housing in the City of Gaborone, Botswana"
0C
OUTREACH NEWS

Faculty/Students' Outreach Efforts Bring Knowledge of
Africa to the
Community

Richard Ralston, African American Studies, spoke on
African, African-American , and Caribbean folklore
at Kromery and Oregon middle schools in March. He also
participated in the Visitor Reading Program by telling
and discussing African and American folktales and popular
culture with a 4th grade class at Marquette Elementary
School.

Patrick Bennett, African Languages & Literature,
spoke on Kenya and the Swahili language to a home schooling
group in Stoughton. Edris Makward, African Languages
& Literature visited the 8th grade French class
at Sherman School and spoke on African Storytelling
in French and on the oral traditions of griots. Earl
Gritton, Agronomy, spoke on The Gambia to the North
Liberty Iowa Optimist Club as well as to the undergraduate
Agronomy
Club.

Elias Mpofu, graduate student in Psychology, presented
a paper entitled "Treading the Soft Areas of Educational
Curricula of a Society in Transition: A Zimbabwean
Perspective" a conference for K-12 teachers at
Madison Area Technical College which was organized
by MATC Associate Dean Janie Wimberly. Kim Miller,
Art History, delivered a lecture entitled "Reclaiming
Our Bodies: Representation of Saartjie Baartman in
the Work of Penny Siopis, Lorna Simpson, and Renee
Green" as part of a lecture series for Women's
History Month at the Elvehjem Museum of Art.

Business Connects to African Studies Outreach

African Studies receives numerous and diverse calls
from the surrounding community for information about
some aspect of Africa ranging from political situations
to recipes. One recent request came from a well known
and respected company in Wisconsin, Pleasant Company,
that helps bring history to life for girls. The company
designs dolls that represent authentic costumes of
a specific era: Felicity (1874), Kirsten (1854), Samantha
(1904), Molly (1944) and Addy (1864). Pleasant Company
publishes The American Girls Collection Books, an historical
fiction collection of six books for each of the five
characters. Addy Walker, is a courageous African American
girl of the Civil War.

A representative of Pleasant Company called Outreach
to discuss the historical accuracy of the retention
of African cultures by African American slaves. Betty
Wass, former Associate Director of African Studies
and Professor in Family Resources and Consumer Sciences,
shared her insights with the representative of Pleasant
Company.

If you look through Pleasant Company's catalogue you
will notice that Addy Walker is accompanied by African
accessories such as gold earrings, the sansa instrument,
a mancala game. She wears a cowrie shell necklace which
was made by UW Anthropology graduate student Rebecca
Kemble-Nyoike.

Emerita Staff Volunteer in Outreach

The African Studies Program expresses gratitude to two
former staff women who volunteered their time in our
Outreach Program this year. Betty Wass, former associate
director and Marj Harris, former assistant director
contributed to the organization of Outreach. Betty
Wass devoted many hours to compiling teachers' projects
from our 1993 and 1994 Summer Institutes for publication.Marj
Harris accepted the arduous task of organizing our
collection of 7000 slides of Africa. We are grateful
for their dedicated services to the outreach organization.

New Publication for Teachers also on Web site Study
of Africa, Curriculum Materials for K-12

Study of Africa, Curriculum Material for K-12, developed
in Summer Institutes on African Literature 1993 and
1994. Price: $10.00. Call African Studies Program 262-2380
to order the booklet; or dial up the African Studies
Homepage : <http://www.wisc.edu/afr/>"African
and African American Curriculum Material K-12."

Former UniversitE9 de St. Louis Exchange Student Continues
Cultural
Exchange between Pre-Schools

Amy White who participated in the 1994-95 UniversitE9
de St. Louis, Senegal Exchange facilitates communication
between the children of the University Preschool Lab,
Madison, WI and the Ecole Maternelle d'Application
school in Saint Louis, Senegal. Amy, an assistant teacher
the UW University Preschool, considers the role of
encouraging mutual friendships as one way to develop
concepts of peace and understanding. Children write
a letter of introduction to their Senegalese penpals.
Students also pack a suitcase that Amy provided to
collect school supplies for their friends in Senegal.
The African Studies Program Faculty Exchange has cut
mailing expenses. Professor Judith Miller, French,
carried the suitcase of pencils, scissors, crayons,
books, etc. to the students at Ecole Maternelle during
her recent visit to the UniversitE9 de Saint Louis
in May.

Kirimi Kaberia, Les Aspin Center for Government, Marquette
University, invited African Studies Outreach to recruit
K-12 teachers and administrators who teach history,
social studies, multiculturalism to interact with
15 Kenyan leaders who will be in Milwaukee for one
week. Educators who are interested in the social-political
realities in Africa, with Kenya as a case study will
participate in the workshop in Milwaukee on August
5. The Kenyans and the Wisconsin educators will share
their ideas and experiences on political, cultural
and social issues in their countries. The Kenyans are
part of a six week USAID program on democracy and governance
at the grass root level. Among the people in the group
are NGO leaders, teachers, activists, journalists,
Muslim clergy, church leaders and university
students.